by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 4, 2022
The day comes for every man when he looks around at his life and feels like something is missing that should be there. He feels owed. He feels like the universe has not been fair. Maybe it has not been. But before you take that complaint to the bench, you need to know...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 14, 2022
I have carried resentment and I have carried forgiveness. I know what both feel like in the body, in the mind, in the long, quiet hours of a night when you cannot sleep. There is no comparison. The weight of unforgiven offenses is suffocating in a way that compounds...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jan 26, 2022
Someone was in my garage at four in the morning. They also tried the bathroom window a few feet from where my wife and I were sleeping. My security system was not armed. I had left doors unlocked. In a gated community in a decent part of Las Vegas, someone got close...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Dec 15, 2021
Nobody gets sober by himself. I don’t care how strong you are, how determined you feel on day one, or how many times you’ve white-knuckled it solo before. Recovery is a contact sport, and the men who make it are the ones who let someone else into the fight...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 16, 2021
Immanuel Kant, one of the most rigorous minds in the history of philosophy, boiled the entire human project down to four questions: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for? And what is man? Those questions have been rattling around in serious heads...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 2, 2021
Fourteen years sober. That is not a small number. That is years of meetings, of honesty, of grinding through the days when the craving felt like a physical thing sitting on your chest. And then a rough enough season arrived that I convinced myself the only way through...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 21, 2021
There is a man in your life who is getting it done as a dad every single day, and nobody is making a big deal about it. He is not going viral. He is not on a magazine cover. He is just in it, grinding through the ordinary heroics of fatherhood without applause or...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2021
People can change. I know that because I am one of them, and my starting point was not exactly promising. I grew up in a trailer in the swampy part of Florida. My family ran a commercial blue crab fishing operation, and seafood was on the table most nights not because...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 22, 2021
Twenty-five years ago I shipped out to Perth, Australia, with two suitcases and no idea what I was getting into. For two years I lived without music, television, movies, dating, or the internet. When I wrote letters home to my family, it took two weeks for them to...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 18, 2021
One in five people has a diagnosable mental health disorder. Read that again slowly. That means in any room you walk into, twenty percent of the people present are dealing with something clinical, something that has a name, something that responds to treatment but...
